• n. 卡特爾；企業(yè)聯(lián)合；壟斷聯(lián)盟；俘虜交換條約
• n. (Cartel)人名；(法)卡泰爾

詞源同card, chart.代指在紙上簽署的合作協(xié)議。

cartel

cartel: see chart

cartel (n.)

1550s, "a written challenge," from Middle French cartel (16c.), from Italian cartello "placard," diminutive of carta "card" (see card (n.1)). It came to mean "written agreement between challengers" (1690s) and then "a written agreement between challengers" (1889). Sense of "a commercial trust, an association of industrialists" comes 1902, via German Kartell, which is from French. The older U.S. term for that is trust (n.). The usual German name for them was Interessengemeinschaft, abbreviated IG.

1. He acted as a frontman for a drugs cartel.

他給一個毒品集團當掩護。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

2. Since 1993 OPEC, the oil cartel dominated by Saudi Arabia, has kept its output constant at around 25m barrels a day.

自1993年以來，由沙特阿拉伯主導(dǎo)的石油輸出國組織歐佩克就一直將石油產(chǎn)量控制在每天2,500萬桶左右。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Cartel members may defect by behaving competitively.

卡特爾的成員國由于進行競爭而會出現(xiàn)背叛.

來自辭典例句

4. Almost no one sincerely likes winter except the oil cartel and the cough syrup magnates.

除了石油聯(lián)合組織和生產(chǎn)止咳糖漿的巨頭,幾乎沒有人真正喜歡冬天.

來自名作英譯部分

5. In the classic script for a Cartel , the group sets a unified optimally exploiting price structure.

按照卡特爾的傳統(tǒng)范本, 這個集團制定出一個統(tǒng)一的最有利于剝削的價格結(jié)構(gòu).

來自辭典例句